Visual Basic .NET Tutorial for Beginners Make App That Sells

Download and install Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition on Windows, then sign in with your Microsoft account and choose a team theme to start using Visual Studio.

Create your first Visual Basic Windows Form project in Visual Studio 2015 and drag controls onto the form. Set the button text and font via properties, then run the project.

Declare and use variables in Visual Basic by creating a string variable named message and an integer, then show the value in a message box on click.

Learn to use if then else statements in a Visual Basic Windows Forms app by wiring a text box, label, and a check button to display messages based on input.

Create a simple calculator in Visual Basic by placing two text boxes and a results button on a Windows Form, parse inputs, and perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Learn to customize a Visual Basic form by setting its title, icon, and background image, with stretch or zoom options, background color, and border style choices.

Build a Visual Basic progress bar with timer control, using start, stop, and clear buttons to manage the bar and update its value as the timer interval in milliseconds passes.

Learn to use a listbox in Visual Basic by adding items, selecting items, and displaying the selection with a message box, plus understanding zero-based indices and basic listbox events.

Learn to use checkboxes and radio buttons inside group boxes in Visual Basic Windows Forms, enabling multiple selections or one-at-a-time choices.

Create a simple text-to-speech app in Visual Basic .NET using Windows Forms, wiring a text box and a button to speak input text via Microsoft SAPI.

Learn how to create a second Windows form and open it from the first form with a button in Visual Basic, including setting the second form’s label and font size.

Create a simple login application in Visual Basic Windows Forms, validating a password to open a second form and hide the first form on success.

Learn to implement password protection in Visual Basic by masking input in a text box with a password character, such as asterisk or dollar sign, in a login form.

Learn to add images and icons to a Visual Basic Windows Forms app, using picture box, image properties, and size modes like stretch and zoom; align icons on buttons left.

Drag and drop a tab control onto the form, add and rename tab pages like login and image, then run the program to see three tabs.

Learn to build and manage a VB.NET treeview: add nodes with an input box, create children, and assign images from an image list. Update nodes on selection and image use.

Add a splash screen to a Visual Basic Windows app by adding a splash screen item, then customize its background image and title.

Learn how to use a for loop in VB.NET to repeat code a fixed number of times, with initialization, incrementing, and a practical button example.

Learn how to implement do while and do until loops in VB.NET, initialize a counter, and iterate until a condition like x < 10 is met, including do while not.

Learn to create and call user defined subs in vb.net windows forms, using private or public scope and passing text box values to compute and display a sum.

Explore the difference between subs and functions in Visual Basic .NET Windows Form applications, and learn how a function returns a value from text boxes on a button click.

Learn to add a timer control in Visual Basic Windows Phone app, set the interval in milliseconds, and start or stop the timer to increment a text box every second.

Learn to display running date and time in a VB.NET Windows Forms app using the timer control. Update a label every second with a customizable date-time format.

Learn how to implement an OpenFileDialog in a Visual Basic .NET Windows Forms app, configure filter and initial directory, enable multiselect, and display selected file names in a text box.

Learn to launch any executable file from a Visual Basic Windows Forms app by using an open file dialog to select and execute files across directories.

Embed a pdf viewer in a VB.NET form by adding a pdf reader control and using an open file dialog to load and display a pdf.

Embed VLC media player ActiveX plug-in into a Visual Basic Windows Forms app, load videos via an open file dialog into the playlist, and control start, stop, and pause.

Learn to embed a YouTube video in a Visual Basic Windows Forms app by adding the Shockwave Flash object and setting its movie property to the embed URL.

Learn how to implement autocomplete in VB.NET apps by configuring auto complete custom source for text boxes and combo boxes, including custom lists, recently used lists, and file system options.

Learn to embed the Windows Media Player control in a VB.NET Windows Forms app, load a video with an Open File dialog, and control playback with start, stop, and pause buttons.

Create a VB.NET windows form mp3 player by loading multiple audio files via open file dialog, listing them in a listbox, and playing the selected item with Windows Media Player.

Learn to create a simple html editor in vb.net by using a rich text box, drag and drop features, a browser display area, and a submit button to render results.

Learn to open a text file in a VB.NET Windows app by using an OpenFileDialog to load content into a TextBox or RichTextBox.

Learn to search a word in a rich text box and highlight matches with color in VB.NET, using a search button and text box after opening a text file.

Create and write to a text file in VB .NET. The video shows saving to the binary directory, closing the file, and opening it to verify multiple lines.

Learn to play system sounds and beeps in a Visual Basic .NET Windows app by wiring six buttons, handling clicks, and configuring beep frequency and duration.

Master how to use charts and graphs in VB.NET with a beginner-friendly approach, building and configuring data visualizations within a Visual Basic app.

Learn how to download a file from the internet in a visual basic Windows app using a button, specifying the source URL and destination path with proper slashes.

Learn to display key system information in a VB.NET app by using system information properties to show computer name, user name, platform, version, and memory with labels and a button.

Create a random number generator in a Visual Basic Windows app using a Random object and a button to display numbers between a min and max, e.g., 5 to 50.

Learn to use the date time picker control in a Visual Basic .NET app and format date time to custom strings for display.

Embed a WebBrowser control in a Visual Basic .NET Windows Forms app to navigate websites. Add back, forward, and refresh buttons and update the URL textbox via the navigated event.

Learn how to declare and use arrays in VB.NET, store names in a string array, access elements by index, and iterate with a for loop to display all names.

Use a combo box in a Visual Basic .NET window, populate items in the designer or at runtime, and show the selected item with a message box.

Learn to use a data grid view in a Visual Basic .NET project by adding two columns named name and surname and inserting rows from text boxes via a button.

Learn to remove the selected rows from a data grid view in a Visual Basic Windows Forms app, with checks for selection and a loop to delete each row.

Pass values between forms in VB.NET. Use a public string on Form2 to receive text from Form1's text box when you click a button, then show it on a label.

Learn to create a pdf in vb.net with itextsharp, download and install the library, add references, import the itextsharp dlls, and generate a two-page document with hello world.

learn to create and insert lists in a PDF using iTextSharp with Visual Basic Windows applications, including ordered, unordered, Roman, and nested lists, plus related paragraph and page setup.

Learn how to add images to a PDF in a Visual Basic Windows Forms app using iTextSharp, including image scaling, sizing to 250x250, and adding borders.

Learn how to add a table to an existing pdf using iTextSharp in a visual basic windows form application, including header setup, column span, and row creation.

Open a webpage from a VB.NET Windows Forms app by wiring a button click to launch a URL in the default browser. Demonstrate with google.com and yahoo.com.

Build a VB.NET app that displays Google Maps by collecting street, city, state, and zip in text boxes, constructing a Maps URL, and showing it in a web browser control.

Learn how to import data from an Excel file into a DataGridView in a VB.NET Windows Forms app, including connecting to the Excel source, selecting sheet 1, and displaying rows.

Implement a multiple document interface in VB.NET by turning a form into an MDI container, creating child forms, and wiring a menu to open them inside the parent.

Learn how to log in to a website using vb.net in a windows form app by populating username and password fields and clicking login button in a web browser control.

Learn to fetch a website's source code using vb.net by entering a URL, retrieving the HTML string, and displaying it, with basic error handling via try-catch.

Learn to create a blank Access database, design a table with fields such as employee ID and name, set auto number for IDs, and save the database.

design a database in vb.net by creating tables and columns, setting default values, and a primary key; use autoincrement ids, input masks, and country combo boxes to enter data.

Explore Microsoft Access basics by using column properties, sorting data in ascending and descending order, and creating and customizing forms to enter and save new records.

Learn to create and design a Visual Basic .NET form with buttons and charts, customize data fields, layout, colors, and fonts, and add navigation and time-related controls.

Learn to create and run Access queries in design view, set criteria to filter employees, add a currency bonus column, and update, delete, or pass queries to other languages.

Learn to create Microsoft Access reports, import data, design layouts, add text boxes, and compute sums and averages with page and report footers, then preview the report.

Learn how to connect a Microsoft Access database to a VB.NET Windows Forms app in Visual Studio, create a data source, bind with a binding source and data grid.

Learn how to connect a Visual Basic .NET Windows Forms app to an Access database and add, save, and delete records using a binding source, text boxes, and buttons.

learn to display the real-time row count of a local database in a VB.NET app by binding a data source to a label and updating as data changes.

Learn to bind a chart control to a local VB.NET database in Windows Forms, using a binding source and data source to map x value members to y axis values.